Aunty Acid by Ged Backland for February 25, 2025

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    FreyjaRN Premium Member about 6 hours ago

    We couldn’t do that in the hospital, but we definitely did when I worked in biotech. My supervisor, my boss, and I talked science fiction a lot. We got through the work stuff, then switched to SF&F. Fun times.

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    Freebyrd1  about 6 hours ago

    Work is a 4 letter word, and therefore rude

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    jmworacle  about 4 hours ago

    Especially to us stage four ergophobics!

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    rockyridge1977  about 4 hours ago

    Gossip city!!!!!

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    nosirrom  about 2 hours ago

    Especially in meetings.

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    coffeemom88  10 minutes ago

    So it’s like Fight Club?!

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    Yakety Sax  7 minutes ago

    Was Your Printer A Stunt Double In “Office Space”?!

    Our factory office doesn’t really have tech support, but I am known as the “techy guy” since I’m a PC gamer, so I always get called over to fix any computer issue a coworker is having.

    The shipping manager brings me out to a mangled pile of plastic, broken circuit boards, and mechanical parts that vaguely resemble the insides of a printer.

    Shipping Manager: “Can you fix it?”

    Genuinely confused, I look around, assuming the printer is just trash and he is asking about something just not working nearby.

    Me: Pointing at the pile “You mean… that?”

    Shipping Manager: “Yeah.”

    Me: “Fix? Not replace? Fix?!”

    Shipping Manager: Getting annoyed “Yeah!”

    Me: “What happened to it?”

    Shipping Manager: “It got run over by a forklift, but they make these things super durable, you know?”

    Some people just have no idea how much they don’t know.

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    Yakety Sax  4 minutes ago

    A Bob In The Office Is Worth Two In The… Break Room?

    We have a worker who I will call Bob. Bob is the kind of person who makes you wonder how they survived into adulthood, let alone got an office-based job. Bob had to be told that the term is “copy and paste” and not “copy or paste”. He was convinced that you could only do one or the other, and his mind was blown when he was shown that you could — and in fact should — do both.

    For reasons known only to upper management, Bob was never let go. He just coasted along, providing “assistance” to various projects until each project manager realised what they were dealing with and tried to pass him on to another project manager to get him off their hands.

    This is what I assume is happening after I see a project manager I don’t quite like (too many low-key racist comments about asylum seekers for my liking) trying to convince a new-ish project manager to take on Bob. I feel like I should say something, but I don’t have to, as my own manager is nearby and interjects.

    Manager: “Having Bob on your team is like having two good workers quit.”

    Bob stayed where he was.

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    Yakety Sax  1 minute ago

    This Office Has Really Jumped The Shark

    I come into the office on a Monday and see my boss putting together a remote-controlled inflatable shark in a closet in the office manager’s office.

    Boss: “Good morning!”

    Me: “Uh… whatcha doin’?”

    Boss: “Just giving [Office Manager] the morning he deserves.”

    Me: “…”

    Boss: “Okay, fine. [Office Manager] spent all weekend drinking and doing blow and getting me to do the project work that he should have been doing… again.”

    Me: “And the shark?”

    Boss: “He confided in me that he’s terrified of sharks, and when he’s coming down from a weekend bender, he’s extra paranoid. I’m sick of it.”

    [Boss] then tests this apparatus by having the shark “swim” out of the closet and aim directly for [Office Manager]’s chair.

    Boss: “Perfect! Just needs one final touch.”

    He taped a small note saying “I quit!” to the back of the shark and reset it into the closet.

    Sadly, I had other duties to attend to down the hall, but around 11:00 am, I heard a blood-curdling scream coming from the direction of [Office Manager]’s office. I saw [Boss] chuckling to himself as he walked toward the exit with all of his personal effects.

    Along with this stunt, [Boss] had sent plenty of evidence about [Office Manager]’s unprofessional behavior (including slurred and drunken voicemail messages from [Office Manager] to [Boss] demanding that he work at the weekend) to Human Resources, which meant that a day later, [Office Manager] was also walking out the door with his personal effects.

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